Chapter 13. Anxiety

"Lou, wake up honey...Sherry is here. She said she's taking you to work."

Mom was knocking at my door, I was stretching my body and see my alarm on the floor and my phone was buzzing with Sherry's face on it. I looked at the time and immediately got up.

I had texted Sherry last night to swing by my parents and pick me up for work.

"I'm up! Thanks, mom, I'll be right down."

I was downstairs, joining mom and Sherry for coffee twenty minutes later.

"We still have time, your mom was just telling me about your boyfriend who was here for dinner last night." Sherry was digging into her pancakes, while I was adding sugar and mixing my black coffee. There was a hint of a smile on her face.

"He's not my boyfriend mom..." I rolled my eyes at her and started sipping my coffee. I sighed like I always do when I smell that first cup of coffee in the morning.

"Yeah, well with the way he looked at you I doubt it." Mom